Sinclair v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding pecuniary gain aggravating factor, even when combined and merged with murder-during-robbery aggravating factor, was insufficient to support death sentence where defendant had some mitigation
• holding pecuniary gain aggravating factor, even when combined and merged with murder-during-robbery aggravating factor, was insufficient to support death sentence where defendant had some mitigation
• stating that no magic words are necessary to trigger the requirement that the trial court conduct a Richardson hearing
• stating that no magic words are necessary to trigger the requirement that the trial court conduct a Richardson hearing
• noting that trial court weighed the defendant's cooperation with police as mitigation
• reversing death sentence for shooting death of cab driver where pecuniary gain and commission during a robbery were sole merged aggravator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

43 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-01-06· cited 120×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Khadafy Kareem Mullens v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-06-16· cited 70×
• State v. Loftin
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-02-01· cited 68×
• Sliney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-17· cited 63×
• Mendoza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 57×
• Ault v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-09-30· cited 53×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-02-10· cited 49×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-30· cited 39×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 37×
• Reese v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-20· cited 35×
• Kocaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-01-03· cited 32×
• Wilcox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-08· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-02-12· cited 29×
• Yacob v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-03-27· cited 29×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-03-31· cited 927×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Correll v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-14· cited 104×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-10-17· cited 92×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 92×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-02· cited 65×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-16· cited 63×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-01· cited 53×
• Stephen v. United States District Court
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-21· cited 53×
• Eutzy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-20· cited 47×
• Lloyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-17· cited 45×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-19· cited 40×
• Rembert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 38×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-22· cited 35×
• Menendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-08-26· cited 35×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-23· cited 34×
• State v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 34×
• Eutzy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-15· cited 29×
• Caruthers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-02-07· cited 29×